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Alyosha
01-26-2015, 03:31 PM
About fucking time...too bad she's surrounded by Constitution hating statist pigs all the time

http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/22/sotomayor-to-justice-department-lawyer-w


I have a real fundamental question, because this line drawing is only here because we've now created a Fourth Amendment entitlement to search for drugs using dogs, whenever anybody's stopped. Because that's what you're proposing. And is that really what the Fourth Amendment should permit?

...we can't keep bending the Fourth Amendment to the resources of law enforcement. Particularly when this stop is not—is not incidental to the purpose of the stop. It's purely to help the police get more criminals, yes. But then the Fourth Amendment becomes a useless piece of paper.

Chris
01-26-2015, 04:02 PM
As the story says she stood in lone dissent against other even "conservative" judges in HEIEN v. NORTH CAROLINA. Good for her. Someone needs to stand athwart the trend toward police state and yell Stop!

Peter1469
01-26-2015, 05:31 PM
Bravo.

CreepyOldDude
01-27-2015, 02:08 PM
About $#@!ing time...too bad she's surrounded by Constitution hating statist pigs all the time

http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/22/sotomayor-to-justice-department-lawyer-w

Good for her.